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Red showed me a game QUEBEC 1759 which they may sell
thru S & T. Made copies of the complete info.
Spoke to John Boardman who did the article in MOVES #4
which mentioned ELECTION (not by name). We reminisced about
it. When I get a little free time he'll come here for a visit.

He told me about a series of books by Joseph Needham
called SCIENCE & CIVILIZATION IN CHINA (Cambridge University Press?).
Vol. 3 - "Astronomy" discusses Chinese games developing out of
divination and is very complete on Chinese games.
Spoke to Phil Orbanes, going out to the park to speak freely.
Phil Orbanes called He spoke to Fred Feucht today and Fred
understood our difficulties. If I can come up with games
other than pencil and paper to fit his artwork there would
be just as much chance to interest MB in them. Some suggestions -
pegs, vinyl on vinyl, grease pencil on vinyl.
Marshall Lucas has a lot of other business in town so there
won't be any hard feelings because of Fred calling off the
date tomorrow.
Phil and I discussed the games for Reiss I told him about
NO WAY, but not the details.
He gave me the [illegible crossed out] rules for his PLOT;
FRIDAY THE 13TH, NINE LIVES, WORDS FOR THE WISE;
COUNTERPOINT; and the diagrams, without the rules, of
CROSSFIRE (HEX). To prove that the player who goes
first